Making U.S. ports resilient as part of extended intermodal supply chains /

Making U.S. ports resilient as part of extended intermodal supply chains /

"TRB's National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Report 30: Making U.S. Ports Resilient as Part of Extended Intermodal Supply Chains focuses on identifying and elaborating on the steps needed to coordinate freight movements through ports in times of severe stress on existing op...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Southworth, Frank (Author)
Corporate Authors: National Cooperative Freight Research Program (sponsoring body.), United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (sponsoring body.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, 2014.
Series:NCFRP report ; 30.
Subjects:
Harbors > United States > Management.
Emergency management > United States.
Organizational resilience > United States.
Online Access:http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/ncfrp/ncfrp_rpt_030.pdf
Table of Contents:
  • chapter 1. Introduction
  • chapter 2. Literature review
  • chapter 3. Interviews with supply chain experts
  • chapter 4. Case study : response to and recovery from Superstorm Sandy
  • chapter 5. Case study : Columbia River closure
  • chapter 6. Synthesis of findings
  • Abbreviations.